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Investigating Teacher Quality Around the World

Sun, April 19, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium sits at the intersection of two vexing questions—What is effective teaching? and How can we capture or measure it?—by bringing together five research teams who are each examining teacher quality in a different country (U.S., England, Colombia, Israel, Singapore, and Hong Kong). The studies reveal how policy views of teaching are both universal and a complex product of any country’s priorities and features, its histori-political landscape, its teacher development systems, and various on-the-ground realities of its schools and communities. Additionally, each presentation uses teacher quality to make visible the ways in which countries define broader purposes of education, prioritize social mobility or collective transformation, and respond to edu-political imperatives popular in this increasingly global 21st century.

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